Hoekstra Lab

University of Twente

Oost-Nederland (NL2) · Netherlands

ERC-funded
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ERC Advanced Grant · 2018

Sustainability, efficiency, equity and resilience of land and water use for global food and energy security: synergies and fundamental trade-offs

Humanity faces major challenges: stay below local and global ecological thresholds; increase natural resources use efficiency; share resources fairly; and increase societal resilience. Most research focusses on one or two of these challenges at a time; there is a major scientific gap in understanding synergies and inevitable trade-offs between the development principles of environmental sustainability, equitability, efficiency and resilience. This project aims to analyse synergies and trade-offs between environmental sustainability, resource efficiency, social equity and social-ecological resilience in the context of land and water use for food and energy supply. We consider production,…

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